| Sumario: | Living in poor and segregated neighborhoods has detrimental effects on children's life chances. In an attempt to improve poor children's outcomes, the Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) program engages parents and their children in kindergarten and the primary grades to enhance academic achievement. This study looks further at the children's social and emotional development. In particular, it examines the moderating effect of poverty and segregation and the program's ability to enhance developmental outcomes for youth in early adolescence. Using a quasi-experimental research design, findings show that, above and beyond the main CPC impacts, those children living in high poverty and highly segregated areas fare additionally well through their CPC program participation. Effect sizes range from about 0.15 to about 0.40, depending on the outcome.
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